How to Install Fonts on Ubuntu

The different ways of installing Fonts on Ubuntu are described below.

Installing fonts for single use

    1) Using kfontview

• An easy way to install fonts is using kfontview. Run the command given from command line.
  

• Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal
  

• Run the command

        apt-get install kcontrol

• After the installation process is completed, run command $kfontview.

            kfontview

• From the kfontview window, open the font you have downloaded.

  Click on the "Install" button

  NOTICE: You will probably need to resize the window to see the "Install" button which is in the lower right hand corner.

  Click on the "Personal " button

2) By hand

• If a font doesn't exist create it. First create a font's directory

           mkdir ~/.fonts

• To copy font from command line

        cp [font file] ~/.fonts

• To copy all fonts from myfonts folder
  

        fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts

Installing fonts for systemwide use

• Make a root directory

             mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts

• Copy the font(s) into the newly created directory

              cp [fonts] /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts

• To Run

        fc-cache -f -v

Installing Microsoft Windows Fonts (eg Times New Roman)

• Make sure you have the "universe" repository added. If not, as root, modify your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the deb line which will look something like this

        deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

• Updata apt-get

         apt-get update

• To Install run the following

         apt-get install msttcorefonts